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I was a chubby kid @4 yrs. old. (But then many folks are at that age.)

I don't care for card games nor board games. I don't care about chess, checkers.

I actually did write this article after I interviewed the film maker.  My published name is for another article in same literary journal, which I didn't write...so someone made the corrections...  

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17 minutes ago, BR46 said:

I lie to my mother on a regular basis 

I never want my mother to know my financial situation 

What is it with parents who ask for total financial situation...  If I've already told her the mortgage is paid off, am employed, not starving..then no point worrying. I just make super vague comment..and say don't worry. 

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7 minutes ago, shootingstar said:

What is it with parents who ask for total financial situation...  If I've already told her the mortgage is paid off, am employed, not starving..then no point worrying. I just make super vague comment..and say don't worry. 

My mother doesn't come out and say it but she is looking for money but every time she has a extra 20 bucks she runs to the casino. 

I'm not going to give her money so she can go gambling. 

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17 minutes ago, Airehead said:

I hate lining my shoes up in a line. This is odd given how much I hate clutter. 

I line all my spices up with the label facing forward.  It feels so disorganized and chaotic if otherwise.  Beer, too, I want that to look inviting if I have some, so they have to be labels forward.

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11 minutes ago, Randomguy said:

I line all my spices up with the label facing forward.  It feels so disorganized and chaotic if otherwise.  Beer, too, I want that to look inviting if I have some, so they have to be labels forward.

Same for me. 
And spices are in approximate alphabetical order. 

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I had something to do with how a component of Tomahawk Cruise Missile rocket fuel is manufactured.

In case I ever mentioned that here, here's another: My 2nd Grade teacher, Sister Serena, nicknamed me "Mars" because I used to often tell her about what I had seen at night with the 6" Newtonian telescope my uncle gave me.

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1 hour ago, dennis said:

I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

i sang the Folsom Prison Blues during the Passenger Talent Show on my 5 day Yangtze River Cruise.

The mouth's of the Chinese crew dropped open in disbelief when I got to "just to watch him die."

They didn't think stuff like that happened in "Meiguo," their word for America and which means "The Beautiful Country."

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3 hours ago, Philander Seabury said:

Same for me. 
And spices are in approximate alphabetical order. 

My spices are in order of frequency with the most frequent in a cupboard, like my old kitchen, and the least frequent in a new spice drawer. I kept reaching for the cupboard out of habit, so I decided to leave them there. 

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One summer I worked for a fence contractor. (sub contractor for Sears)  I had to make money to pay for engineering classes. We worked from dawn to dusk $4 per hour and no OT.   That was a great summer job.  

We installed LOTS of fences in Chicago, and the near west suburbs.  Fences go in for lots of reasons...  many for neighbors that hate each other.  

I learned I needed to be sure I graduated from college with my engineering degree.   And use lots of hand lotion after mixing cement all day.  OMG cement dries out your hands a LOT. 

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I was fired from my first job after 2 days of work. I was 16 yrs. old and at a coffee and doughnut shop.  I didn't understand the jargon...double-double and all that fast enough I guess. 

To this day, when I order coffee, lattes, etc. I don't use jargon. And servers check with me if I want creme, etc. (which I don't, I have milk in my coffee. No sugar.)

Before me, no one in my immediate family really drank coffee...hardly at all. Then at university, I started to drink coffee more often.  I think I was lst in my family re coffee habit.

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14 hours ago, Kzoo said:

My shoes have to be lined up.  It’s one of my OCD (CDO) things.  The older I get the more of them I recognize in myself.

In the TV show "Wings", the main character, Joe Hackett, who has major OCD, cannot go to sleep at night if his shoes aren't properly lined up and not touching each other.  Shoes touching is a very bad thing.  :(  

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2 minutes ago, Taylor said:

In the TV show "Wings", the main character, Joe Hackett, who has major OCD, cannot go to sleep at night if his shoes aren't properly lined up and not touching each other.  Shoes touching is a very bad thing.  :(  

I think it was my youngest daughter that couldn't have food touching other food on her plate.  Thankfully she grew oot of that.

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3 minutes ago, Philander Seabury said:

I think it was my youngest daughter that couldn't have food touching other food on her plate.  Thankfully she grew oot of that.

Years ago, I worked with a very smart electrical engineer who insisted on eating all of one thing on his plate at a time.  So he would eat all of his potatoes, then all of his salad, then all of his meat.  Weird.  

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2 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Years ago, I worked with a very smart electrical engineer who insisted on eating all of one thing on his plate at a time.  So he would eat all of his potatoes, then all of his salad, then all of his meat.  Weird.  

#2 eats like that. 
He seems to really enjoy the green beans, so he just finishes them off before moving to the potato. Then he really likes that so he eats it until it’s gone. Then he starts on the pork chop. He just gets focused.

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4 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Years ago, I worked with a very smart electrical engineer who insisted on eating all of one thing on his plate at a time.  So he would eat all of his potatoes, then all of his salad, then all of his meat.  Weird.  

I have a brother in law that eats like that.  I don't think it's OCD in his case.  It's just the way he eats.  He has other strange eating habits.  One is he eats all of the apple.  When nothing but the core and stem are left of the apple he eats the core.  When done with the core, he eats the stem.

 

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16 minutes ago, Taylor said:

In the TV show "Wings", the main character, Joe Hackett, who has major OCD, cannot go to sleep at night if his shoes aren't properly lined up and not touching each other.  Shoes touching is a very bad thing.  :(  

This reminds me of a time with my daughter.  For about 2 years after graduating from HS she worked at a fairly high end children's show store.  She loved the kids and helping them and management loved her as an employee.  One thing they drilled into her was that all the shoes on the display had to be pointed in the same direction - always the right shoe pointed to the right so the style of the shoe is displayed and not the instep.  Well one day about a year after she left there she was with me when I was getting a new pair of running shoes.  This was a fairly large store geared to running.  I'm sitting in a chair talking to a sales person/trying on shoes.  I look across the store and there she is working her way down the wall, rotating the shoes that customers had put back on the wall the wrong way.

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27 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Years ago, I worked with a very smart electrical engineer who insisted on eating all of one thing on his plate at a time.  So he would eat all of his potatoes, then all of his salad, then all of his meat.  Weird.  

Perhaps the person likes to fully taste each thing separately. Not mix flavours too soon.

Dearie isn't quite like that...I think he's changed after years of cooking and eating with me.  

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10 hours ago, Bikeguy said:

One summer I worked for a fence contractor. (sub contractor for Sears)  I had to make money to pay for engineering classes. We worked from dawn to dusk $4 per hour and no OT.   That was a great summer job.  

We installed LOTS of fences in Chicago, and the near west suburbs.  Fences go in for lots of reasons...  many for neighbors that hate each other.  

I learned I needed to be sure I graduated from college with my engineering degree.   And use lots of hand lotion after mixing cement all day.  OMG cement dries out your hands a LOT. 

I've seen men here at work even in the office, use hand lotion openly....Alberta air is dry (and cold in winter) year-round.

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56 minutes ago, roadsue said:

#2 eats like that. 
He seems to really enjoy the green beans, so he just finishes them off before moving to the potato. Then he really likes that so he eats it until it’s gone. Then he starts on the pork chop. He just gets focused.

Our son does it too. He saves mashed potatoes for last. They are his favorite 

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